For the pioneering rap-metal band Clawfinger, Deaf, Dumb and Blind is where it all started with these guys. It set their style of hard-hitting metal songs, with raps about a broad amount of subjects, such as politics, anti-racism and financial and emotional struggles all of which would become recurring themes in their later albums. I find this album to be a great debut, and a great example of how nu-metal can be done right.